[Federal Register: February 3, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 22)] [Notices] [Page 5265] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr03fe99-34] ======================================================================== Notices Federal Register ________________________________________________________________________ This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains documents other than rules or proposed rules that are applicable to the public. Notices of hearings and investigations, committee meetings, agency decisions and rulings, delegations of authority, filing of petitions and applications and agency statements of organization and functions are examples of documents appearing in this section. ======================================================================== [[Page 5265]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration [A-122-506] Oil Country Tubular Goods From Canada AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice of Initiation of New Shipper Antidumping Duty Administrative Review. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce has received a request from Atlas Tube, Inc., to conduct a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on oil country tubular goods from Canada (51 FR 21782, June 16, 1986). In accordance with the Department of Commerce's regulations, we are initiating this new shipper review. EFFECTIVE DATE: February 3, 1999. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Zev Primor or Wendy Frankel, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement, Group II, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230, telephone: (202) 482-4114 or (202) 482-5849, respectively. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Applicable Statute and Regulations Unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the statute are references to the provisions effective January 1, 1995, the effective date of the amendments made to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act. In addition, unless otherwise indicated, all citations to the Department's regulations are to the regulations as codified at 19 CFR part 351 (April 1998). Background The Department of Commerce (Department) has received a timely request from Atlas Tube, Inc. (Atlas), to conduct a new shipper administrative review of the antidumping duty order on oil country tubular goods from Canada in accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.214(b) of the Department's regulations. Initiation of Review In its request of December 30, 1998, Atlas certified that it did not export the subject merchandise to the United States during the period of investigation (POI), and it has not been affiliated with any exporter or producer who exported the subject merchandise to the United States during the POI. Accompanying its request, Atlas provided certifications which indicate the date the merchandise was first entered for consumption in the United States, the volume of the first and the subsequent shipments and the date of the first sale to an unaffiliated customer in the United States. In accordance with section 751(a)(2)(B) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.214(d), we are initiating a new shipper review of the antidumping duty order on oil country tubular goods from Canada. Since this new shipper review was requested in the six-month period following the anniversary month of the order and is being initiated in the month immediately following the semiannual anniversary month, the period of review will be June 1, 1998 to November 30, 1998. See 19 CFR 351.214(g)(1). We intend to issue the preliminary results of the review not later than 180 days from the publication of this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Period to be Antidumping duty proceeding reviewed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Canada: Oil Country Tubular Goods, A-122-506: Atlas Tube Inc.......................................... 06/01/98-11/30/98 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Concurrent with publication of this notice, we will instruct the Customs Service to allow, at the option of the importer, the posting, until the completion of the review, of a bond or security in lieu of a cash deposit for each entry of the merchandise exported by the company listed above, in accordance with 19 CFR 351.214(e). Interested parties must submit applications for disclosure under administrative protective orders in accordance with 19 CFR 353.34(b). This initiation and this notice are in accordance with section 751(a) of the Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)) and 19 CFR 351.214. Dated: January 28, 1999. Holly A. Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import Administration, Group II. [FR Doc. 99-2560 Filed 2-2-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-DS-M